These Days, Hard Work is Just Rewarded with Harder Work

“Congrats on the record year! Here’s a $20 gift card to celebrate!”

Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day
Published in
4 min readMay 23, 2023

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A woman resting her head on her hand, looking stressed out, while working at a laptop.
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As someone who falls into the “elder millennial” category, my job track has been pretty typical for my age bracket: if I want a significant raise, I need to job-hop. Many of us have spent our entire careers working in jobs that give out 2% raises every year…

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Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day

I write about everything from my experience with mental illness to politics to philosophy. Much of my so-called "wisdom" is from Tumblr dot com. He/him/his.